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Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data

Sustainable Livelihood is an emergent concept that has gained currency in the continuum of approaches in community development and poverty eradication. Universally, there exists a common “Pentagon Model” in conceptualising the various types of capital available to the individual and groups in a comm...

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Main Authors: Md. Yassin, Sulaiman, Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril, Kamaruddin, Nurani
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65052/1/ICYOUTH2013-4.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.650522018-09-03T04:49:17Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65052/ Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data Md. Yassin, Sulaiman Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Kamaruddin, Nurani Sustainable Livelihood is an emergent concept that has gained currency in the continuum of approaches in community development and poverty eradication. Universally, there exists a common “Pentagon Model” in conceptualising the various types of capital available to the individual and groups in a community. This study proposes additional domains that may be relevant to the sociocultural and indegeous context of Malaysia. Current literature and available records and reports are examined as the first primary sources of data and then combined with selected field observations and the conduct of Focussed Group Discussions. Important issues and challenges have emerged from the study that impinge upon the importance of youth as a social force in Malaysian society, a depiction of youth’s livelihood episodes from childhood through adolescent to young workers, the fagility of sustainable livelihood strategies, and, the evident need for more practical and realistic pathways for the youth successful transformation into useful and productive workforce. Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65052/1/ICYOUTH2013-4.pdf Md. Yassin, Sulaiman and Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and Kamaruddin, Nurani (2013) Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data. In: International Conference on Youth 2013 (ICYOUTH 2013), 29-31 Oct. 2013, Mines Wellness Hotel, Sri Kembangan, Selangor. .
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description Sustainable Livelihood is an emergent concept that has gained currency in the continuum of approaches in community development and poverty eradication. Universally, there exists a common “Pentagon Model” in conceptualising the various types of capital available to the individual and groups in a community. This study proposes additional domains that may be relevant to the sociocultural and indegeous context of Malaysia. Current literature and available records and reports are examined as the first primary sources of data and then combined with selected field observations and the conduct of Focussed Group Discussions. Important issues and challenges have emerged from the study that impinge upon the importance of youth as a social force in Malaysian society, a depiction of youth’s livelihood episodes from childhood through adolescent to young workers, the fagility of sustainable livelihood strategies, and, the evident need for more practical and realistic pathways for the youth successful transformation into useful and productive workforce.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Md. Yassin, Sulaiman
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Kamaruddin, Nurani
spellingShingle Md. Yassin, Sulaiman
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Kamaruddin, Nurani
Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data
author_facet Md. Yassin, Sulaiman
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Kamaruddin, Nurani
author_sort Md. Yassin, Sulaiman
title Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data
title_short Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data
title_full Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data
title_fullStr Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data
title_full_unstemmed Youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data
title_sort youth's sustainable livelihood strategies: initial findings from embedded data
publisher Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
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url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65052/1/ICYOUTH2013-4.pdf
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